Dojo has recently caught the attention as a popular AJAX toolkit. But it is
much more than that. Quite simply put, it is an Open Source JavaScript UI
toolkit. It makes writing JavaScript easier, building dynamic UIs very
simple and interacting with server-side components a breeze. The foundation
of Dojo is "Dojo Base", a single tiny library which contains Ajax, event
handling, effects, quick CSS queries, language utilities, and a lot more.

On top of this Base, the rest of Dojo Core adds high-quality
facilities for Drag and Drop, extended forms of Ajax and I/O, JSON-RPC,
internationalization, back-button handling etc.

Layered on Dojo Core
is the widget system, Dijit, for building UI components easily. If you can
write HTML and CSS, Dijit allows you to quickly build reusable client-side
components (by using extended attributes on HTML). By upgrading standard
HTML instead of inventing a new markup language, Dijit makes building
powerful Web 2.0 UIs very easy to learn.

This three day course does an in-depth look at the various parts of
Dojo both from a client side as well as server side perspective. This
will give you the tools to become facile with Dojo and to even extend it
suit your requirements.

We use the latest stable version of Dojo in this class.

Objectives

This course is targeted to give detailed guidance to building Web 2.0
applications using Dojo. On completion, attendees would be able to:

Understand the various components of the Dojo toolkit

Pick the tools and frameworks that can be used along with Dojo

Understand the various core JavaScript enhancements included in Dojo

See the various components added by the Dojo Core system libraries

Build powerful UI components by using Dijit

Use server-side components in Dojo to interact with AJAX frameworks

Understand how to deal with data on the server and client side

Extend Dojo by writing custom widgets, library components

Learn how to use the Dojo Grid component

Learn how to localize and internationalize a dojo-based application

Learn how to build automated test cases using the Dojo Objective Harness (D.O.H.)